More new articles added this week to Terry’s Computer Tips:

Longtime subscriber M.Y. Choy wrote to ask, after a recent email newsletter article “Should I Choose Vista or Windows XP?”:

Dear Terry, the above topic appeared on your 13 May Newsletter.

Unfortunately, I have already switched to Vista and have found this problem i.e. after installing Acronis Disk Director Suite V.10 successfully, I cann’t start the program. Vista “said” that:- “E000101F4: Not enough privileges. You do not have enough privileges to start Acronis Disk Director Suite”

Why Vista allowed us to install the program but denied us to start the program??. Beside this, there are other problems such as “missing” drivers. I donot think many people would start switching to Vista. I regretted doing that.

By the way, is there any way to bypass that annoying ” donot have enough privilege ….” thingy?? Best regards. M. Y Choy

The intent of the “Not enough privileges” error is to protect your computer from viruses, trojans, adware, spyware and other nasties that try to modify system files.

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Product: NOD32
Class: Anti-virus for Windows
License: Commercial product. Free 30 day test drive.
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000/2003/Vista
Version Reviewed: v2.7

I’ve written about NOD32 in my Security Software Recommendations article in each issue. It’s the anti-virus program that I use on all my Windows computers. I began using it in 2003 after becoming dissatisfied with one of the big-name anti-virus programs which, in my opinion, had gotten too bloated, required too much computing power and was slow to provide virus signature updates.

Our IT people at the office had moved us to NOD32 the previous year, so I had a year of (involuntary) experience using it — and knew that it was quick, efficient and interfered little with other things I was doing on the computer.

First, I bought a copy for my notebook computer so I could try it (well, it really has a 30-day full-function free trial, but

The image below on the left is the Control Center. Basically, if you double-click on the icon in the Windows Status Bar, you’ll see the Control Panel. The other images will be displayed when you click on the corresponding link in the Control Panel.

Continue reading NOD32 Anti-Virus Review - A Look at NOD32